Southern Man by Neil Young
Southern man
better keep your head
Don’t forget
what your good book said
Southern change
gonna come at last
Now your crosses
are burning fast
Southern man
I saw cotton
and I saw black
Tall white mansions
and little shacks.
Southern man
when will you
pay them back?
I heard screamin’
and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long?
Southern man
better keep your head
Don’t forget
what your good book said
Southern change
gonna come at last
Now your crosses
are burning fast
Southern man
Lily Belle,
your hair is golden brown
I’ve seen your black man
comin’ round
Swear by God
I’m gonna cut him down!
I heard screamin’
and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long?
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Sweet Home Alabama by Lynard Skynard
Big wheels keep on turning
Carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the Southland
I miss Alabamy once again
And I think its a sin, yes
Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow
(chorus)
Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I’m coming home to you
In Birmingham they love the gov’ nor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth
(chorus)
Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they’ve been known to pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I’m feeling blue
Now how about you?
(chorus)
Sweet home Alabama
Oh sweet home baby
Where the skies are so blue
And the guv’nor’s true
Sweet Home Alabama
Lordy
Lord, I’m coming home to you
Yea, yea Montgomery’s got the answer
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Hehe. That was different and creative!
I was searching for an answer to my question of what Lynard Skynard was referring to. You answered it. Makes me not want to ever again listen to what I thought was a great song. “Love” of “the South”?? No. “Love” of racist bigots/ Yes!!
“In Birmingham they love the gov’nor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?”
How could ANYONE hold up Alabama’s 1960′ and 1970′s governors and say they “love” them?? “We all did what we could do ..” to what? Maintain segregation? YES, Watergate DID bother me!! It reeked of highest level misconduct. Did Lynard’s conscience ever bother him??? It should!!!
P.S. I am white and not some radical, left-wing ranter. I am a 53 year old, highly educated professional who questions why I ever liked Lynard’s song. It still sounds great … but will never be the same.
That was funny, I hope you’re joking.
lynard skynard wrote it in responce to neil youngs ignorance to the south and slavery.the slaves where brought over by the rich and powerful called the aluminati.they where put in the south to help feed the north,the aluminati was brought to the us by a man named slidell from louisiana and is even more strong today as you see with the united nations.the whole idea is to make the world one money and one goverment.and it is there we are controlled through the stock markets and united nations and also beware of a new religion called bahai faith it is of the aluminati to convience everyone that all religions are of the same god.they only thing keeping us free is gun rights because they cant control every house hold.may god bless
Well I think Lynyrd Skynard combated a terrible sounding, deprression gong that was derogetory towards Alabama with a great, upbeat, almost flippant song and I think Lynyrd Skynard is most defintily not racist so why would he write, in all seriosuness, a sracist song, it was just to get back at Neil Young for writing a song derogetory towards Alabama and that the song was crappy anyways.
Steve’s post is hilarious!!! the redneck even managed to misspell “illuminati”
Clench that gun close! Maybe the Masons will come and try to build a cathedral on your head……
And who the hell would want to control YOU anyway?
Put down the moonshine and read a book…and I don’t mean Tom Clancey
Try Focaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco
You’ll sleep better at night ya paranoid bastard.
All you stupid ass liberals pretend that you do not hold any racism, however when walking through what those niggers call “ghettos” and you see those lumps of crap, tell me you feel no racism towards those natural criminals. Our jails are not filled with blacks because of racism. Long live the Confederate Spirit
ih Lynard had no hate, then why would tak a shot at Niel, i mean cmon, “southern man” wasn’t directed at everyone that live in the south, it was directed to all those stupid mother fuc*ers that believe that blacks are less then whites, and yes i do cringe when i walk throu a “ghetto” but i see white people to. go marry your sister you supid fuc*en red-neck. and the only reason your jails might be filled with blacks in the south is because you only go after blacks and ignore when wight people hang and linche black people, your going to hell, i’m 16 and i know that
Fuck all you jew loving nigger lovers, you will burn in hell. Neil Young will die and so will you. i love lynard skynard and i love the south.
I love the red white and blue
Red like my neck
White like my skin
And blue like a niggers face while im lynching him
I assume you’re not the Roger of Rogers and hamerstien. Perhaps Roger Rabbit, except maybe whiter, and u probobly don’t get laid as much.
None of us jew and nigger lovers are going to hell because we love our fellow humanity. And most of us don’t believe in something as trivial as a God. If there was one, then there wouldn’t be people like you.
So Roger, in God’s absence, YOU can call me Jesus. Hell, you can even crucify me. But you’ll never prove me or any other compassionate person wrong. You can kill the person, but the ideology lives on in the hearts of people whom you can only dream of jerking off too.
With that said, Neil Young’s southern man was and still is an accurate description of the degredation that placates minorities in the south. There is still hatred in the north, don’t get me wrong but the south openly tolerates the misstreatment of people that haven’t fucked there cousins.
The lynard skynard song is all about macho pride in false beliefs that are long out of date, mainly cause they never should’ve been in date.
But here’s the good news. Lynard Skynards main man is dead. Plain crash, remember. Hmmm, maybe there is a God afterall.
Oh and your kneck wouldn’t be so red if you just washed it.
u suck dick xcept Lynyrd skynyrd
I have to admit that boths songs are nice in their own right, but Neil Young tells it like it was from a black perspective and Lynard tells it from a white perspective. Two points of view and both are equally true…except Lynard decided to take a shot at Neil for presenting the truth…reality can hurt when you are living in oblivion.
It makes me very sad to read prior comments that speak of lynching black people and of how they are “natural criminals”. I thought we had come far as a nation over the past few decades. In fact, reading the post that included the commment about lynching a black person made me want to throw up. As cliche as this is (though, apparently, to some people on this page, it isn’t) it doesn’t matter what color your skin is. We are the same on the inside, and there and horrible people that belong to all colors of skin and wonderful people that belong to all colors of skin. You say you love freedom and the red, white and blue, but what kind of freedom are you promoting if you want to bring down other people? That isn’t democracy, its something called fascism. Or perhaps you agree with Hitler in that there is a dominant race and everyone else should be killed off?
He’s an American from the Southern, he probably doesn’t know who Hitlar was… Oh, and Neil rocks harder than Skynard could ever dream of!
Peace and be good to your neighbour.
He’s an American from the Southern, he probably doesn’t know who Hitlar was… Oh, and Neil rocks harder than Skynard could ever dream of!
Peace and be good to your neighbour.
well i see that the southern stereotype has made it all over the world. just proves that the world still has a long way to go. the south is not full of rednecks and racists. the south is a great land tarnished by a few idiots who think that someday they will restart the confederacy, but the problem is you need brains to pull off something like that. “The Swedish ‘Viking’” we are not all idiots. In fact, growing up in south carolina and having redneck friends (who were not racist), i am most likely smarter than you. stating a comment like that proves your ignorance.
by the way, neil young and lynyrd skynyrd were never feuding. that is a complete misperception, it was simply a situation told by two different views. the good and the bad. hell, if you would watch Freebird the Movie you would see that Ronnie’s wearing a Neil Young t-shirt, they were actually friends.
it isnt the color of the peoples skin that makes them criminals in the ghetto, its their economic status. The ghettos are mostly black because blacks have not, and still do not recieve as equal opportunities as whites. There are people of all races in the ghetto, and they are all exposed to criminal lifestyles and have a much higher chance of entering a criminal lifestyle than someone from the suburbs.
Im not gonna resort to name call’n or being disrespectful. but I want you guys who seriously believe white people are supreme reflect on why you all think that way and what your upbringing had to do with that. I think that we all need to overcome certain biases that we are raised to have. I was what people call “homophobic” untill recently when one of my close friends admitted to me that he was gay. I realized that i hadn’t even been looking at gay people as people. Thats what i think you’re doing with black people. You’re categorizing them in your head and judging them by their negatice collective traits. It wasn’t until i heard my friend’s voice on the phone quiver and shake on the phone when he was telling me did i realize that Gay people weren’t just “butt fuckn faggots,”
Guys,
First of all, racism isn’t cool. Secondly, i find it funny that you guys are fighting since Neil and Skynard’s fight was just a joke… they were actually friends. They even wrote songs & recorded together.
Peace